Kim Catron
An Advent Season of Writing (or not?)
For those of you not familiar with the church calendar, Advent is the season that leads up to Christmas. Advent is a time of waiting. A...
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Kim Catron
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
Kindle Unlimited
I know I haven't posted which books I read over the summer. I promise you they were vast and varied, and I didn't write them down. One of...
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Kim Catron
- Oct 2, 2022
- 2 min
RETIREMENT!
Let me be clear, I am no where near retirement, but I am closer to it than I have ever been. Unlike 31 years ago when I walked into my...
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Kim Catron
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Coffee and tea and pet peeves
I have a pet peeve. And it's silly how much it annoys me.It shouldn't, but it could so easily be remedied that it makes me mad that it...
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Kim Catron
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED BY JOHN GREEN
"The Anthropocene is a proposed term for the current geological age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its...
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Kim Catron
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Punctuation
My daughter punctuates all of her text messages with exclamation points. For some odd reason, this makes me feel good. Great, actually....
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Kim Catron
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min
HOME BEFORE DARK BY RILEY SAGER
Our flight was cancelled last month as we tried to make our way back home from Orlando (another blog for another day), and the hotel we...
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Kim Catron
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
LIBBY- for online books!
I've been spending a lot of time lately in the car on long drives (think 7 hours each way, 22 hours each way-- you get the picture). Most...
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Kim Catron
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Doing Disney (again!)
We are going to Disney World next week for our annual family vacation...to Disney World. It's the same family vacation we did last year,...
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Kim Catron
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Why Stephen King and Jodi Picoult don't need your reviews (but debut authors do!).
Let me set the scene: Stephen King’s 65 th novel is about to be released. You liked the first 49, were a little discouraged with 50-53,...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 31, 2022
- 2 min
$1.06
I take pleasure in the small things. Little things truly do make me happy. There's nothing better than getting a refill of fountain soda...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
Author Heather Gudenkauf
I discovered Heather Gudenkauf about five years ago. And then as usually happens with me, author names got out of my brain as do titles,...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 31, 2022
- 1 min
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET BY DIANE CHAMBERLAIN
The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain is southern fiction thick in the historical civil rights era. It is about chances...
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Kim Catron
- Mar 18, 2022
- 2 min
Wordle...oh, Worlde!
I freely give up the first 2 attempts at Wordle in order to gain my footing. I start always with MOUSE (a tribute to Mickey). It's a...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 30, 2022
- 2 min
Masterpiece and 9pm bedtime
There's nothing that makes me happier in the winter than watching the clock turn to 9pm and knowing that I can go to bed. The darkness is...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Jane Eyre is by far my favorite novel. It is the one I come back to and reread every summer, lingering over the lines and the sweeping...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 1, 2022
- 2 min
In the center of the ring.
It's 2022. I need to let that sink in. It's 2022. I can vividly remember being downstairs in our rumpus room (aptly named by my husband...
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Kim Catron
- Jan 1, 2022
- 1 min
A PORTION FOR FOXES BY DANIEL MITCHELL
I met Daniel Mitchell many years ago during my MFA program. It was evident to me then, listening to his works in progress, that he was...
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Kim Catron
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
It's a Wonderful Life!
Dear friends, I cannot thank you enough for your outpouring of support over this past week for my debut novel Threshing of Straw. I...
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Kim Catron
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
Author's note
Almost a decade ago a character came into my mind—a little 9 year-old African-American girl from Georgia—Macey May Johnson. She refused...
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